“Senator Chuck Schumer (D-NY) told Trent Lott (R-MS), and told my son this voluntarily, ‘We're going to confirm your dad by December.’ The groups said, ‘No, not so fast’; so they were calling the shots, they were calling the tempo,”
Charles Pickering
“I appeal to him to just come out voluntarily in terms of his status as an ex-senator and a colonel of the armed forces.”
Fidel Ramos
“It could almost be a relief to (Senate Majority leader) Trent Lott (R-Miss.). The rules really favor the minority if they've got their act together.”
Charles Gabriel
“By depriving the charged person of any defenses [the rulings] mean that sexual dalliance, however voluntarily engaged in, becomes harassment whenever an employee sees fit, after the fact, so to characterize it.”
Robert H. Bork
“We commend Ford for stepping up, being very cooperative and voluntarily recalling these vehicles, ... Our investigation is ongoing, and we intend to keep it open because we want to find the root cause of the failure and make sure that we've identified the totality of the problem.”
Rae Tyson
“The people in power will not disappear voluntarily, giving flowers to the cops just isn't going to work. This thinking is fostered by the establishment; they like nothing better than love and nonviolence. The only way I like to see cops given flowers is in a flower pot from a high window.”
William S. Burroughs
“Out of the rubbles of Trent Lott's house he's lost his entire house there's going to be a fantastic house. And I'm looking forward to sitting on the porch.”
George W. Bush